The Ballad of Marianne Faithfull
Kris Needs, ZigZag, December 1979
MARIANNE FAITHFULL was the Face of the '60s Fragile, damaged little bird with the voice of an angel, broken on a spike and filled with downers; "The Girl on a Motorcycle", the girlfriend of Mick Jagger, the suicide temptress...
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